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TROUVAILLE
Christie McDonald and Leslie Morris TROUVAILLE A Conversation About the Proofs of Maurice Blanchot's L'Entretien infini at Houghton Library Abstract: In acquiring the proofs of Maurice Blanchot's Entretien infini, Leslie Morris explored the curious ways...

TERRORISM REVISITED
Eduardo Ledesma TERRORISM REVISITED Modernisme, Art, and Anarchy in the City of Bombs Abstract: Explosively charged and violently disparate terms such as Modernisme (Modernism), Anarchy and Culture–or cultural resistance–find a common space in the City of...

KALEIDOSCOPIC DEMOCRATIC VISTAS
Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza KALEIDOSCOPIC DEMOCRATIC VISTAS Translating John Ashbery through Spanish and Latin American Poetry 1 While working on the galley proofs of my translation of John Ashbery’s Where Shall I Wander, I asked the poet about an idiom...

CONFESSIONI DI UN BRADIPO 
Bruno Pischedda CONFESSIONI DI UN BRADIPO Come e perché è nato Scrittori polemisti Riassunto: Nel periodo che va dal 1970 ai primi anni ’80, nessuno in Italia si sarebbe immaginato una ripresa massiccia dell’impegno tra gli intellettuali letterati. Invece...

Beyond Introspection Rethinking
Beyond Introspection Rethinking Novelistic Space in Isabelle de Charrière’s Lettres de Mistriss Henley Marta Figlerowicz Marta Figlerowicz BEYOND INTROSPECTION Rethinking Novelistic Space in Isabelle de Charrière's Lettres de Mistriss Henley Abstract: I...

An Open Letter to President Drew Faust Concerning Occupy Harvard
Dear President Faust, We the undersigned faculty members of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Linguistics, and the Committee on Degrees in the study of Women, Gender and...

Open Ye the Gates by Francesco Erspamer
Harvard should remain (or return to be) a place where unhindered passage is granted to those who seek knowledge, truth, and social justice. Harvard news office writer Ken Gewertz died a few months ago, in September. He did not see his university lock and...

Languages and Literatures by Kyle Hall
A twentieth century poet once said: "You see the old way wasn't working / so it's on us to do what we gotta do / to survive." A similar tack, which reevaluates the humanities' arguments for their very existence, seems necessary in today's university. The...

Hospitality and the humanities by Alina Opreanu
In one of the best-known elegies of the Romanian language, Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) expresses what many world travelers have felt at some point in their wanderings: “Mai am un singur dor: / În liniştea serii / Să mă lăsaţi să mor / La marginea mării” [...

La conversazione. Un modello italiano
by Amedeo Quondam Donzelli, 347 pp., € 28.00 CECELIA OLIVERIO “Would you care to bestow the grace of your dancing upon the gathered company?” asks the perfect courtier to his advisee. “Why, most absolutely not, my dear friend,” a slightly less than...
La conversazione. Un modello italiano